CLEVELAND, Ohio – The news tends to move pretty quickly on cleveland.com, and today it has been coming especially fast. Here are some of the stories from the past 12 hours you might have missed, including 28 arrests in an FBI drug sting, a possible merger between the Cleveland Botanical Garden and Holden Arboretum and a profile of Ed FitzGerald's wife, Shannon.

28 suspected drug-ring members arrested in sting

FBI agents search a home on E. 92nd street in Cleveland, OH, Thursday, June 26, 2014. They were looking to arrest members of suspected drug operation. (Marvin Fong / The Plain Dealer)

Yarrow adds a splash of color to the glass house at the Cleveland Botanical Garden on Thursday. The garden and Holden Arboretum are considering a merger that would create a major public garden with one foot in the city and the other in Lake and Geauga counties. (Lynn Ischay/The Plain Dealer)

The Cleveland Botanical Garden and Holden Arboretum, two venerable Northeast Ohio nonprofits with more than 80 years of history, intend to merge in a deal rooted in the recession and developed over the last nine months.

Board members at Holden voted Thursday afternoon to push forward with the merger, which would create the 13th largest public garden in North America and would wipe out the botanical garden's debts. A financial settlement might close within weeks, but it could take much longer for the nonprofits to meld into a single entity, with one foot in Lake and Geauga counties and the other in the city.

A partnership with Holden would end six years of struggles for the garden, which has seen its endowment - the buffer money in the bank, essentially - dwindle thanks to stock-market losses and a subsequent debt default. For Holden, which oversees a 3,600-acre property devoted to trees, merging with the garden promises higher visibility, stronger ties to urban education and the prospect of more visitors. | Read Michelle Jarboe McFee's story

Can Shannon FitzGerald give her husband a lift in election?

Shannon FitzGerald, right, has cautiously stepped on to the campaign trail to support her husband, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, in his bid for Ohio governor.Lisa DeJong, The Plain Dealer

Shannon FitzGerald is the political spouse you rarely meet. The prospect of being Ohio's next first lady might be the last thing on her mind.

Sure, she has a fulfilling career as a school dietitian and all of the family bustle that comes with having four kids between the ages of 14 and 20. She's also married to Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, who in seven years has gone from a suburban city council seat to the Democratic nomination for governor.

Along the way, Shannon FitzGerald somehow maintained the low profile she prefers. That's changing now that her husband is challenging Gov. John Kasich.

Always supportive of her husband but leery of politics, she is stepping on to the trail cautiously. She doesn't live or die with each poll or fundraising report, and many believe that, win or lose, she'll be the same person. But she's flying the FitzGerald flag at 5k races, attending chicken dinners here and there and even has allowed herself a thought or two about what role she could play in state government.

And this month, in what the campaign said was a first, she spoke at length about herself and her family in an interview with the Northeast Ohio Media Group. | Read Henry J. Gomez's story

Mayor Jackson's gun proposals seem to be just tough talk

Safety Director Michael McGrath speaks about these illegal guns that were confiscated through the VGRIP initiative (Violence and Gun Reduction Interdiction Program) and displayed during a news conference at the Cleveland Police Department on Tuesday, May 14, 2014. The first VGRIP initiative for 2014 has seized 78 guns in just 90 days. The goal is to reduce gun violence in targeted areas. (Lisa DeJong/The Plain Dealer)

But it's hard to see how his latest set of gun proposals is more than just tough talk. Many of his proposals appear at odds with state law, including a requirement that gun owners tell cops when they sell or transfer a firearm.

Ohio's top court has shot down the city's past gun-control ordinances that contradicted new state laws created by our conservative pro-gun legislature.

Yet, last week, Jackson -- alarmed by a surge in gun violence in the city -- held a news conference to pledge to revive past gun ordinances and add some new ones. | Read Mark Naymik's story

Who will Cavaliers select with top pick in NBA Draft?

Huntington Prep basketball player Andrew Wiggins smiles along side his mother Marita Payne-Wiggins, right, as he announces his commitment to the University of Kansas during a ceremony, Tuesday, May 14, 2013, at St. Joseph High School in Huntington W.Va. The Canadian star, a top prospect, averaged 23.4 points and 11.2 rebounds per game this season for West Virginia's Huntington Prep. (AP Photo/The Herald-Dispatch, Sholten Singer) AP

If you read all the reports, you'd swear the Cavs are so confused -- they may just pass when it comes to making the first pick in the draft. Owner Dan Gilbert wants one guy, the front office wants another. Two custodians decided the best move was trade the pick. And I think the Cavs like all the confusion, because they want all their options open. They also have known for a few days what they plan to do if they keep the pick.

Here's what I think: They will take Andrew Wiggins, and not just because Gilbert supposedly wants the Kansas star. It's because of what David Griffin has said from the moment he took over as the Cavs general manager -- "fit." Griffin has talked about how the Cavs have a lot of "good pieces," but they don't all "fit together." | Read Terry Pluto's story

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